Nintendo Q&A - Outlook for fiscal year ending March 2021

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RolStoppable said:

tbone51 said:
NSW successor not coming in 2022 confirmed for those who suggest it, I still think if this FY and next FY continue to do close to/above 20mil then a successor won’t come intill end of 2024 or spring 2025. Most people seem to be on board with 2023 spring which doesn’t make sense to me

The people who want a successor to launch in spring 2023 or earlier are those who don't want ports of PS5/XSX games on Switch's successor.

Yes this exactly. Longer they wait the more powerful the Switch 2 will be, which means the smaller the gap will be with the home consoles, which means the more likely Switch 2 will be able to get current multiplat games.

With how popular Switch is it never made any sense to suggest it would be replaced in 2022, I don't understand where those people are coming from. I think Spring 2023 has always been the earliest reasonable guess, but holiday 2023 or spring 2024 is far more likely. I'm all for spring 2024 as by then I think Nintendo will be able to launch a Switch 2 that will have a smaller gap with home consoles than the current Switch gap, leading to much better third party multiplat support, and March launch worked for Switch having two huge buying seasons for year 1 so it makes sense they'll do it again.